The document provides an overview of the Holocaust that took place from 1933 to 1945. It describes how the Nazis targeted around 6 million Jewish people for extermination through a systematic process that started with discrimination and deprivation of rights, then isolation in ghettos and deportation to concentration and death camps, where people were killed in gas chambers and their bodies cremated. Key elements that led to the Holocaust included totalitarianism, German nationalism, a history of antisemitism, and Hitler's belief in racial supremacy of Aryans over Jews and other groups.

1. 1933-1945 The Holocaust

15. The fire department only made sure the fire did not spread to the building next to the synagogue

16. View of the interior of the Essenweinstrasse synagogue in Nuremberg following its destruction during Kristallnacht.

28. Jews board a deportation train at the railroad station in Würzburg.

29. Hundreds of Jews wait to board deportation trains at the railroad station in Würzburg. Their luggage and bed rolls are piled in the center of the platform.

34. “ Work makes one free”